People who have had Coronavirus , how do you think you caught it?

[Heavenly44]

I someone say on the restrictions thread someone asked for details on common transmission on Coronavirus so just wondering how do you think you caught it?

In a shopping centre. A woman a metre away from me sneezed. I'm blaming her.

Parents evening in March ??
Going to work in March ??

@Littlepond

I suspect public transport. I had it in March and no one else in my office had it. DH caught it from me.

I suspect this too as travelled a lengthy daily commute which included a v large city and airport stop. Was never tested at the time. DD tested positive a month ago but despite her practically sleeping on my head most nights I tested negative.

I caught it from my colleague at work. We are tested weekly and she had no symptoms. I tested positive 5 days after spending 12 hour shift with her. I had mild symptoms and no one in my house ( 2 other adults & 2 teens) caught it (well no one showed symptoms at any rate).

I think I caught it either on the tube or in the lifts / corridors of my block of flats (London).
I caught it in March and am still pretty unwell, only managing to work part time.

Lots of kids from Ds school were on a European ski trip when all this started kicking off in Italy. (DS didn’t go). When they came back, the whole school started dropping like flies for the next few weeks, several a day being sent home with high temps. However it was back when they would only give you a test if you had travelled to a limited list of places. They had been outside the narrow area specified. DS started with symptoms first, a few days before lockdown, so we think we got it that way.

DD and i both caught it from a toddler group. DH tested negative despite us all sleeping in the same bed most nights - makes sense as we were pretty sure he had it in March while working abroad

I caught it from my colleague in the bar where we work. He'd been in another bar where social distancing wasn't followed. No one else in our bar caught it as we were being very strict.

I'm actually finding this thread quite reassuring. I've been a bag of nerves (going crazy in fact) the last few days, about doing ANYTHING. But it does seem unlikely that we'd catch it by just passing through a shop in a careful distanced way. The majority on here do seem to have needed prolonged indoor closeness with infected people to have caught it - work, school, relationships, home, public transport etc.
The lady in the flat downstairs is isolating due to contact with a positive Covid case. It's put my nerves in overdrive. But, I'm never in a room with her; I just pass through a communal hallway for about 5 seconds a day. It seems unlikely to put me (or anyone I later pass in the street) at risk. So maybe I can start to feel less anxious?
Of course, the new strain is much more contagious, and a less known quantity, so I'll continue to be vigilant. But I do , even so, feel somewhat reassured about general daily living.
to all of you who've had it, or currently have it. I hope you're all OK

Skiing at the start of the year abroad Obvs

Probably in the office in March. Possibly on the tube or at an event I attended although that was 9 days before I got symptoms so I’d be less inclined to think it was that than the obvious which was an office with three people who’d been to Italy over half term, two of whom came to work with a cough.

Husband travelled to Germany for work and brought it back with him (we don’t live in Britain. Cases were very low where we live when we caught it and there were no travel restrictions in place at the time).

Caught it from my dh who is a key worker. He was the only person I had contact with.

My son caught it at school.
Parents are sending in children who've tested positive, or children whose family members of positive.
10% of class have it.

But how could this be when children don't transmit it easily and are unlikely to catch it, according to Dr Harries and Co?

I’m a SAHM, my DH wasn’t ill, I had an injured foot and couldn’t drive so hadn’t been out.... So I can only conclude it was from the play DH took me to at the theatre or the restaurant we ate in afterwards.

I'm a teacher and I caught it from school. I've only been at work and home for months. Have shopping delivered and I wipe it down so pretty much certain I got it from school as i go nowhere else.

Either work or from my kids. Who knows

From my son when he returned from a ski trip to Austria in mid February, he was sick for two weeks on his return, I was sick for 3 months, my DH and other DS just had mild symptoms.

The only person I know who knows how they got it caught it from their daughter (teen).

I'm a teacher, I caught it in early March as a part of a cluster of cases centred on a boy who had been skiing in Italy during February half term.

Should have said caught it at school...

Last January on holiday in Milan, Verona, Venice and Bergamo. I was ill in bed for three weeks and took a good couple of months to recover properly.

Work. I'm a teacher

I work in a school nursery, myself and 15 other staff tested positive last and this week.

Dh caught it from work and passed it to me. They sometimes have to work closely with one another and had a number of people off with it.